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Show t THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. SPANISH FORK, UTAH peoted him to make himself a king in fact if not in name. Men like Aaron Burr considered him a fool for giving up the Presidency. Had Washington felt it his duty, he would undoubtedly have taken a third term. But he saw no such duty and set the precedent which has prevailed to this day. The picture of Washington crossing the Delaware Is from the moving Janice Merepicture, dith." Could Washington himself see It, he would laugh and he seldom did more than smile. For Washington - knew his way about In canoe and battenu and river craft of all kinds, Just as he did on horseback and on foot through the forest and anywhere the emer- - . CTBara? , gA2zw . TYZi&mrGsrozr By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN AS11INGTONIANA these facts: Pluns for the celebration in 1932 of the anniversary of the birth of George Washington are tuking shape under the direction of the Sulgrave institution, with headquarters in New York. The Colonial Dames of America have raised a fund of $100,000 for the endowment of Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home of the Washingtons In England, given to the United States by the English people.' Mrs. Victoria Woodliull Martin of Norton Park, Worcestershire, England, has given an ancient English manor house to be used as a hotel for American visitors f to Sulgrave Manor; she is the Mrs. Victoria Wood- hull who ran for President in the campaign of 1872 and is the wealthy widow, now etghty-sevpof John Bldulph Martin, an English hanker. The American P.ar association visited Sulgrave Manor last summer as the guest of the Sulgrave Institution of Great Britain and deposited In the museum a number of historical relics of President Coolhlge recalled to the importance. recollection of Ids countrymen an almost forgotten spot which should be a Washington shrine by paying an unadvertised visit last summer to the birthplace of the Father of Ills Country. George Washington was born February 11, 1732, on Iopes Creek Fnrm, Westmorelund county, Virginia. The place Is on the west bonk of the Potomac river, 97 miles from Washington by automobile and about 73 by boat Alongside the road This Is Is a small tablet with the inscription, Wakefield." George Washington, however, never knew the place as Wakefield." That name was given the farm by William Augustine Washington, ids nephew. road conThe visitor turns in on a well-kestructed by the federal government. After a mile or two he comes out into a little clearing on a knoll among the pines. At the center of the knoll, inside a high iron fence rises a granite shaft George Washingtons bearing the Inscription, Birthplace." There la no date. This monument Is 33 feet high, of the same pattern as the Washington monument at the capital and was erected At the same by the fedcrul government In 1KW. time the federal government constructed an iron boat landing on Bridge's creek, a mile away, and so restricted its use that boats refused to land; It Is now In ruins. popes creek winds about the edge of the clearing and gives Its name to the approximately thousand acres comprising what always has been known us' the Washington furtn. Popes creek took Us nnme from Col. Nathaniel Pope, from whom the Immigrant, bought this farm jlm Washington, 1032 and whose daughter, Anne Pope, he Shout It Is now a prosperous farm in the possession of the I.atane brothers (pronounced who apparently have cpme to it through Inheritance. , The house In which Washington was bom was burned so long ago that the date hs been forgotten. In 1813 George Washington Parke Cuatls marked five spot with a big boulder of Potomac Milestone. Visitors chipped Aiueh, of the stone away and during Hie Civil vvnr the last fragment of It was carried off. This stone was Inscribed v lib the date of Washington's birth and the names of Ids parents.. John Wnshlngton of Northamptonshire. England, came to tho northern ncck of Virginia ns this region is known, In 1Y7 and bought Ids farm of Colonel Pope, lie left It to his son Lawrenc Captain" laiwrence Washington and he to his son, Augustine, the futher of George Washington. Augustine was bom on the old home place In WO 4. mid In 1713 took as Ids wife Jane Butler, a daughter of Cuteh Butler, a neighbor. From this unjon sprung four children but only two, Augustine and Lawrence, outlived childhood. On the I the death of, Jane Butler Washington In 17: Lnnenster of Ball mnrrled minty. Mary widower The Ball homestead, called Epplng Forest. U still e standing. The rhlldren resulting from this e, A John Samuel, were: George, Charles, Elizabeth nnd Mildred. The Inst n tined died In Infuncy. When Augustine.. the filler of pl.i-m George, died In 1713, he left the home sou Augustine. To h'a secPope's rreck to his ond son iJtwrenee he bequeathed Mount He bequeathed to George, when ha should come of Itge, the farm on the Rappahannock o poslte Fredericksburg. The farm on which Oeorge Washington was born pnsaed on the death of George's brother, Augustine, to the latters son, William Augustin Washington, and next to his son, George Corbin th . Grant-Greele- y pt Lat-a-ney- ), nmr-rlug- Wii-t'ii- e fbrtraii Jn Collection. gency found him. Any man who successfully carried a fight to the American Indian In his own wilds had to know his business. So Washington would be as amused as astonished at the boatload here pictured. However, It is an Improvement on the famous painting In the Boston museum by Thomas Sully which it much re sembles. While the picture may be laughed at, the crossing Itself on that Christmas tight of 1770 mnst be reckoned as a vital factor in the outcome of the Revolution. Before that crossing the cause of the Colonists seemed hopeless. Washington was their one hope. And Cornwallis had Just chased Washington clenr across New Jersey and driven him to the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware, leaving Rail with 1,550 llerzlans at Trenton to gobble him up as soon as the river should freeze over or boats be secured. Congress was inefficient Jealousies had created dissensions among the officers. , The Colonial forces were melting away by desertion. No less than 2,700 of the New Jersey people had turned Tories to save their necks and estates and had applied to Rail for protection papers." Cornwallis was so sure of immediate victory that he bad arranged for pass-aghome that he might carry the news in per-seIn Trenton the Hessian hirelings were celebrating by a glorious drunk. So it was that fateful Christmas night. Behold the transformation by noon of the next day Washington in possession of Trenton; Rail and his surviving Hessians prisoners! And when Washington marched his captured .Hessians through the streets of Philadelphia all the world marveled at the Fabius of America" nnd the Colonies passed from despair to Jubilation. President Wnshlngton was inaugurated April 30, 1789, In Federal hail," Wail street. New York. December 0, 1790, the seat of government was moved to Philadelphia, During the next ten years Washington came into being as the federal capital and In October of 1800 John Murshuli, secretary of state, Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury, Samuel Dexter, secretary of war and Benjamin Sioddert, secretary of tiie navy brave in cocked hats, powdered wigs, broadcloth coata s and arrived and took possession of the llttid brick offices clustered abont the White House. President John Adams and his family arrived In November. Thereupon the Sixth congress assembled In the one little wing of the Capitol that was ready for It The government of the United States of America was at home in its own capital at last Nevertheless, the new rnpltul was a good deal of a Joke. New York, Philadelphia and other eltlea called it the national bantling, a ricketty infant unuble to go alone." That there was anything at all resembling a capital was largely due to the activities of President Washington, to whom congress hod delegated the task of selecting and developing the alte. The act of 1790 was passed when the new notions treasury was empty nnd It hod no credit; therefore there was no appropriation. A 'list of the counterfeit presentments" of George Washington portraits, replicas, copies, statues, busts, medallions, etc. would fill several of these columns. Every now and then a new one or one stored away and forgotten cornea to light. The portrait reproduced la the well known pulntlng by Gilbert Stuart in the Henry C. Frick collection. Last year what appears to be a replica of this portrait on a circular Iron panel was purchased by a New York collector at a price said to he $100,000. Lost year Wulter L. Ehrick of New York exhib-Ite- d in the Chicago Art Institute one of the four Lnnsdowne" portraits painted by Stimrt of Washington. Thereupon 500, (ino school children,, with help from their elders, bought ihe picture by penny contributions for $75,000. The bust here pictured has had a most amusing history. It la said to be nnd probably lathe bust made In 1S32 by Ilerre Jean David. This bust was presented to th$ United States by France. Fire destroyed the Congressional library In 1S31. The bust wns supposed to ho hunted. In New York, not long ago, Mitchell Kennerley, president of the Anderson Galleries, nnnounred that lie hud Just aold the missing bust for $l0,oo) to Henry B. Huntington, retired railroad man and art collector, 'According to Kennerley the bust was rescued from a Junk yurd. (1783-1872- 23ZASZ'. J&yZlAVlXt Washington. It then passed out of the Washington family. In 184(1 the Washington farm was bought by John F. Wilson of Anne Arundel county, Maryland, who gave the farm to his son, John E. Wilson, who had married Betty Washington, granddaughter of William Augustine Washington. In this way the birthplace of George Washington came back to the Washington blood. Among the was children of Mrs. Betty Washlngton-Wllso- n Latane Wilson. In 1733, when George was three years old, his father removed to the Ferry farm In Stafford county, across the Rappahannock river from Fredericksburg perhaps It was the burning of the Wakefield house that caused the removal. George Washington lived as boy and man on the Stafford county place until he took over Mount Vernon, which had been bequeathed him by bla Lawrence. llow does It come that February 22 Is now celebrated as Washingtons birthday? In this way: In 1582 Ugo Buoncompagno, known to fame as Pope Gregory XIII, took the Julian calendar in hand for doctoring. Caesars calendar was then ten days behind the sun. Papt of the world adopted the Gregorian calendar and the rest stuck to the Julian calendar. It was not until 1752 that Britain made the change. The English Colonics In America of course followed suit. ' George Washington 'was then twenty years of age and already a proihlnent figure. He had been commanded by Governor Dinwiddle of Virginia to go to the Ohio valley and order the French pioneers to leave.' Being young, George quite naturally wanted to be older and promptly added 11 dnys to his age, fixing his birthday as February 22. The British parliament later passed an act prescribing that all births and deaths prior to September 2, 1752, should be dated according to the Julian calendur. Nevertheless, George Washington's blrtbduy Is February 22. George gave evidence early In life of being a real The celebrations of i Washingtons birthday be--. gun Immediately after the Revolution. The first celebration appears to have been in the form of a ball given by bla neighbors and friends at Alexandria, a few miles from Mount Vernon. The principal cities of the Colonies quickly established slndlur social gatherings. This blrthduy ball was always held at the seat of government while Washington was resident and be and his wife attended. February 22 was also a gala night at the theaters. Apparently Washington's sixty-fiftbirthday, February 22, 1797, was the first to be publicly celee brated on a large seule with ceremonies. It was so celebrated ut Philadelphia with much ceremony. The ships in the harbor were decorated. The church bells rang peuls every half hour. Tiie diplomatic corps, members of congress and citizens called at. Ids house to offer congratula' tions. In the evening a hall was given in his honor in The building wns floored for the amphitheater. dunelng and gaily decorated. The President and Ida wife, upon entering, were conducted to an elevated platform, on which .was a sofa and a can- -' py. There were at least 500 ladles present and a larger number of geutlcinen. The President did not use the sofa much, but moved about, conversing with the company. "The President und Mrs were in very Washington," wrote an e good spirits and, 1 am persuaded, have not spent ao agreeable an evening for a long time. Every countenance bespoke pleasure, and approbation; even forgot for a moment their enmity, und seemed to Join heartily In the festivity." No wonder the Washingtons were in good spirits." Washingtons second term ys President was almost at an end and they were looking forward to a resumption of their old happy Ufa at their Moved Mount Vernon, far from the madding crowd and free from the rare of state. Wash-Ingtoof course, could have had a third terra fur the asking. Every statesman In Europe ex- - Th-ia- ), e half-brothe- amull-clothe- h day-tim- , THE KITCHEN CABINET (, list, Wutirg To Curs a Cold r--Tr, Newspaper Union.) in WEEKLY MENU HINTS Good housekeeping Is worth while; but spotless floors may grace a house that is not a home. Real living means ' comfort, happiness, growth. 8UN DAY Breakfast: Fruit, cereal, coffee cake, coffee. Dinner; Fried chicken, parsley potatoes, radishes, green peas, lettuce, strawberry ice cream. Supper: Sandwiches, cake, tea, berries. MONDAY Breakfast: Grape fruit, cereal with cream, creamed dried beef, toast. Dinner: Cabbage with cheeeo sauce, cold boiled ham, green onions. Supper: Chicken ealad, bread and butter sandwiches. TUESDAY Breakfast:' Oatmeal with dates, hot gome, bacon, coffee. Dinner: Rolled roast of beef, sliced cucumber, peas, custard pi. 8upper: Hot potato, aalad, olives, Parker house rolls, strawberries, cake. WEDNESDAY Breakfast; Oranges, griddle cakes, maple sirup. Dinner: Sliced roast, heated In tomato sauce, baked potatoes, radishes and onions, strawberry shortcake. Supper: ( Milk toast, Jolly roll, THURSDAY Breakfast: Buttered toast, egg, bacon. Dinner: Beef croquette, scalloped potato, lettuce with French dressing. Baking Supper: powder biscuit, cottage cheese, strawberries. , FRIDAY Breakfast: Oranges, omelet, toast. Dinner: Salmon loaf, buttered green peas, creamed potatoes Supper: Creamed mushroom on toast, lettuce. SATURDAY Breakfast: Grape fruit, ham and eggs, toast Dinner: Lamb chops, watercress, radishes, mashed potato, gingerbread. Supper: Whole wheat nut bread, orange layer cake. Cabbage With Cheese 8auce. Cook a firm head of cabbage until tender, drain, place on a platter and pour over a rich white sauce to which baa been added a cupful of grated d cheese. Serve cut In pieces. Mors Good Things. 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